Close Encounters
Documentary
Most accounts of UFO sightings can be explained by and attributed to normal earthly phenomena. Those that cannot be solved, however, have police investigators, government officials and researchers puzzled, even decades later in some cases. In each episode of "Close Encounters," two stories of alien phenomena around the world are investigated, re-created and reviewed by researchers. In the telling of each one, the program reveals to viewers facts about thousands of reported occurrences.
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Close Encounters Blind Date and Flying House
A teen views a mushroom-shaped object that leaves a glowing ring on the ground; police officers witness a large triangular object.
9:30 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters British Invasion; School Daze
A British Air Force officer is stunned when a cylindrical object sends a beam of light toward him; school children witness multiple UFO sightings over a three-day period.
3:30 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Local authorities receive more than 50 UFO reports in the Chicago area on Halloween night, many record video of the bizarre lights; Multiple sightings of a large flying craft in Pennsylvania.
7:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Local authorities receive more than 50 UFO reports in the Chicago area on Halloween night, many record video of the bizarre lights; Multiple sightings of a large flying craft in Pennsylvania.
2:30 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Hot Pursuit
Four US Air Force reservists are chased by strange lights while flying back to their base in Cleveland; Constable Alan Godfrey loses consciousness when he investigates a mysterious disruption in West Yorkshire.
3:00 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters The Hitchhiker; Abberance En Provence
A teen sees an unusual pattern of lights in the sky and is terrified when they seem to dive-bomb him; a UFO sighting in France becomes one of the most scientifically investigated cases.
3:30 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Southern Discomfort; Cosmic Cure
Odd light patterns are seen across multiple counties in Texas on the same night; In France, after a powerful encounter a man's previous knee injury is completely healed.
4:00 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Missouri Flap; Highway to Hell
The first sightings of the UFO flap in Piedmont, Mo. are reported; Over 500 reports are made in the following months; A family driving to Ontario encounters mysterious lights and a cigar-shaped craft.
4:30 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Hot Pursuit
Four US Air Force reservists are chased by strange lights while flying back to their base in Cleveland; Constable Alan Godfrey loses consciousness when he investigates a mysterious disruption in West Yorkshire.
7:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Aliens in the Swamp
In Ohio, two officers see a bizarre bright light flying in the night sky, Police dispatch advises them to follow the object, triggering a huge car chase; An ex-Military outdoorsmen tries to communicate with a UFO in the Florida Everglades.
8:30 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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